Water polo at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's team rosters

2009 FINA World Championships
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These are the rosters of all participating teams at the Men's water polo tournament at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships held between July 19–31 in Rome, Italy.

 United States[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Merrill Moses	13 August 1977	R	GK
2	Peter Varellas	2 October 1984	L	D
3	Brian Alexander	5 March 1983	R	CB
4	Jeffrey Powers	21 January 1980	R	D
5	Adam Wright	4 May 1977	R	D
6		12 September 1985	R	CB
7	Layne Beaubien	4 July 1976	R	D
8	Anthony Azevedo	21 November 1981	R	D
9	Ryan Bailey	28 August 1975	R	CF
10	Timothy Hutten	4 June 1985	R	CB
11	Jesse Smith	27 April 1983	R	CB
12	James Krumpholz	22 September 1987	R	CF
13	Genai Kerr	25 December 1976	R	GK

 Spain[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Inaki Aguilar	9 September 1983	R	GK
2	Mario Garcia	15 July 1983	R	CB
3	David Martin	2 January 1977	R	D
4	Blai Mallarach	21 August 1987	L	D
5	Guillermo Molina	16 March 1984	R	D
6	Marc Minguell	14 January 1985	R	CB
7	Ivan Gallego	13 February 1984	R	CB
8	Albert Espanol	29 October 1985	R	D
9	Xavier Valles	4 September 1979	R	CF
10	Felipe Perrone	27 February 1986	R	D
11	Ivan Perez	29 June 1971	L	CF
12	Xavier Garcia	5 January 1984	L	D
13	Daniel Lopez	16 April 1980	R	GK

 South Africa[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1		9 July 1984	R	GK
2		18 December 1987	R	CF
3		8 May 1986	R	D
4		23 November 1982	L	D
5		3 December 1992	R	D
6		25 January 1985	R	CB
7		23 July 1987	R	CB	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
8		30 January 1982	R	CF
9		17 December 1982	R	D
10		12 December 1985	R	D
11		28 February 1987	R	D
12	Duncan Woods	4 March 1978	R	CB	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
13	Donn Stewart	22 August 1980	R	CB

 Serbia[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Slobodan Soro	23 December 1978	R	GK	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
2	Marko Avramovic	24 August 1986	R	D	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
3	Zivko Gocic	22 August 1982	R	D	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
4	Vanja Udovicic	12 September 1982	R	CB	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
5		9 June 1980	R	D	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
6	Dusko Pijetlovic	25 April 1985	R	CF	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
7	Slobodan Nikic	25 January 1985	R	CF	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
8	Milan Aleksic	13 May 1986	R	CB	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
9	Nikola Radjen	29 January 1985	R	CB	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
10	Filip Filipovic	2 May 1987	L	D	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
11	Andrija Prlainovic	28 April 1987	R	D	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
12	Stefan Mitrovic	29 March 1988	R	D	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
13	Gojko Pijetlovic	7 August 1983	R	GK	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)

 Romania[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Eduard Mihai Dragusin	5 January 1984	R	GK	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
2	Cosmin Alexandru Radu	9 November 1981	L	CF	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
3	Tiberiu Negrean	1 September 1988	R	D	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
4	Nicolae Virgil Diaconu	4 September 1980	R	D	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
5	Andrei Ionut Iosep	20 September 1977	L	D	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
6		10 November 1980	R	CB	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
7		30 March 1979	R	CB	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
8		31 December 1980	R	D	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
9		19 May 1975	R	D	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
10	Ramiro Georgescu	27 November 1982	R	D	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
11	Alexandru Ghiban	12 October 1986	R	CF	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
12	Kalman Kadar	11 June 1979	R	CB	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
13	Dragos Stoenescu	30 May 1979	R		1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)

 Montenegro[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Zdravko Radic	24 June 1979	R	GK	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
2	Drasko Brguljan	27 December 1984	R	W	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
3	Vjekoslav Paskovic	23 March 1985	R	W	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
4	Nikola Vukcevic	14 November 1985	R	CF	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
5	Aleksandar Radovic	24 February 1987	R	D	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
6	Milan Ticic	14 August 1979	R	CB	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
7	Mladjan Janovic	11 June 1984	R	P	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
8	Nikola Janovic	22 March 1980	R	P	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
9	Aleksandar Ivovic	24 February 1986	R	CB	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
10	Boris Zlokovic	16 March 1983	R	CF	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
11	Vladimir Gojkovic	29 January 1981	R	P	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
12	Predrag Jokic	3 February 1983	R	CB	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
13	Milos Scepanovic	9 October 1982	R	GK	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

 North Macedonia[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1		5 May 1976	R	GK
2			R	CB
3		26 September 1981	R	D
4			R	CB
5		9 August 1972	R	CB
6			R	D
7		21 July 1981	R	CB
8			R	D
9		11 June 1979	L	D
10		17 August 1979	R	CF
11		3 May 1977	R	CB
12		22 April 1977	R	CF
13		8 March 1980	R	GK

 Kazakhstan[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1		30 August 1987		GK
2	Alexey Shmider	19 March 1990		FP
3	Alexandr Gaidukov	10 January 1973		FP
4	Sergey Gorovoy	6 August 1975		FP
5	Murat Shakenov	23 September 1990		FP
6		20 December 1982		FP
7	Roman Pinipenko	24 December 1987		FP
8	Nikita Kokorin	22 July 1989		FP
9	Rustam Ukumanov	22 March 1986		FP
10	Mikhail Ruday	4 May 1988		FP
11	Ravil Manafov	22 June 1985		FP
12		3 September 1985		FP
13		5 December 1987		GK

 Italy[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Stefano Tempesti	9 June 1979	R	GK
2	Federico Mistrangelo	11 May 1981	R	D
3	Alex Giorgetti	24 December 1987	R	D
4	Fabrizio Buonocore	28 April 1977	R	CB
5	Valentino Gallo	17 July 1985	L	D
6	Maurizio Felugo		R	D
7	Andrea Mangiante	1 July 1976	R	CB
8		21 September 1984	R	D
9	Niccolo Figari	24 January 1988	R	CB
10	Alessandro Calcaterra		R	CF
11	Matteo Aicardi	19 March 1986	R	CF
12	Goran Fiorentini	21 November 1981	R	D
13		26 May 1986	R	GK

 Hungary[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	István Gergely	20 August 1976	R	GK
2	Márton Szivós	19 August 1981	R	FP
3	Norbert Madaras	1 December 1979	L	FP
4	Dénes Varga	29 March 1987	R	FP
5		8 January 1983	R	FP
6	Norbert Hosnyánszky	4 March 1984	R	FP
7	Gergely Kiss	21 September 1977	L	FP
8		24 May 1978	R	FP
9	Dániel Varga	25 September 1983	R	FP
10	Péter Biros	5 April 1976	R	FP
11	Gábor Kis	27 September 1982	R	FP
12	Balázs Hárai	5 April 1987	R	FP
13	Viktor Nagy	24 July 1984	R	GK

 Germany[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Alexander Tchigir	6 November 1968	R	GK
2	Florian Naroska	16 April 1982	R	FP
3	Fabian Schroedter	11 September 1982	R	FP
4	Marko Savic	11 January 1981	R	FP
5	Marko Stamm	30 August 1988	R	FP
6	Marc Politze	20 October 1977	R	FP
7	Heiko Nossek	14 March 1982	R	FP
8	Julian Real	22 December 1989	R	FP
9		3 August 1988	R	FP
10	Moritz Oeler	21 October 1985	R	FP
11	Andreas Schlotterbeck	2 March 1982	R	FP
12	Soeren Mackeben	29 January 1979	R	FP
13		22 September 1984	R	GK

 Croatia[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1		13 August 1980	R	GK	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
2	Damir Buric	2 December 1980	R	CB	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)
3	Miho Boskovic	11 January 1983	R	D	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
4	Niksa Dobud	5 August 1985	R	CF	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
5	Ivan Buljubasic	31 October 1987	R	D	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
6		3 February 1985	R	D	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
7		4 June 1977	R	D	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
8	Andro Buslje	4 January 1986	R	CB	1.99 m (6 ft 6 in)
9	Sandro Sukno	30 June 1990	R	D	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
10	Samir Barac	2 November 1973	R	D	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
11	Igor Hinic	4 December 1975	R	CF	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
12	Paulo Obradovic	9 March 1986	R	D	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
13	Josip Pavic	5 January 1982	R	GK	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)

 China[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Ge Weiqing	25 April 1977	R	GK
2	Liang Zhongxing	23 December 1986	R	CB
3	Li Jun	18 October 1980	R	CB
4	Yu Lijun	28 November 1978	R	CF
5	Tan Feihu	11 January 1987	R	CF
6	Wang Beiming	13 August 1983	R	D
7	Li Bin	24 October 1983	R	D
8	Wang Yong	29 January 1979	R	D
9	Wang Yang	17 January 1983	R	D
10	Xie Junmin	17 May 1983	R	D
11	Han Zhidong	29 July 1977	R	D
12		1 December 1984	R	CB
13		10 April 1990	R	GK

 Canada[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Robin Randall	1 May 1980	R	GK
2	Constantin Kudaba	17 May 1987	R	CF
3		12 January 1987	R	D
4		5 December 1991	R	CF
5	Justin Boyd	23 April 1989	R	D
6	Thomas Marks		R	CB
7	Brandon Jung		R	D
8	Kevin Graham		L	D
9	Aaron Feltham		R	D
10			R	D
11	Devon Diggle		R	D
12			R	CF
13	Nicolas Youngblud		R	GK

 Brazil[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	Andre Cordeiro	9 August 1967	R	GK	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
2		13 July 1981	R	CB
3		15 July 1985	R	CF	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
4	Lucas Vita	1 March 1985	L	D	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
5		15 May 1984	L	D	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
6	Leandro Machado	27 February 1977	R	CB	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
7	Felipe Silva	8 August 1984	R	CB	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
8	Ruda Franco	25 July 1986	R	D	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
9	Erik Seegerer	21 January 1976	R	D	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
10	Felipe Franco	17 May 1982	R	CB	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
11	Daniel Mameri	4 April 1972	R	D	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
12		2 September 1988	R	CF	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
13		7 August 1980	R	GK	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)

 Australia[]

No.	Name	Date of birth	L/R	Position	Height	Weight
1	James Stanton	21 July 1987	B	GK	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
2		18 September 1987	R	CB	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
3	Timothy Cleland	15 December 1984	R	CF	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
4	Nicholas O'Halloran	14 August 1987	L	D	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
5	Robert Maitland	4 September 1983	R	CB	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
6	Anthony Martin	20 March 1985	R	CB	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
7		29 October 1987	R	D	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
8		27 April 1981	R	D	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
9	Thomas Whalan	13 October 1980	R	D	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
10		21 February 1988	R	D	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
11	Rhys Howden	2 April 1987	R	D	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
12	Sean Boyd	10 September 1978	R	CF	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
13	Luke Quinlivan	20 August 1985	B	GK	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)

See also[]

• Water polo at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's team rosters

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Records and statistics (reports by Omega)